Death and the Enlightenment: Changing Attitudes to Death Among Christians and Unbelievers in Eighteenth-Century France

by John McManners

Book Overview

Death and the Enlightenment is an unusual survey of the daily rituals, customs, and attitudes surrounding death and dying in 18th-century France. Focusing on the tension between the faithful and the growing ranks of unbelievers bred on Enlightenment philosophy, McManners charts the course of pestilence and plague, and examines the terrible fears connected with childbirth, disease, disfigurement, mortality, and the hereafter. He also examines suicide,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192818678
• ISBN13: 9780192818676
• Release Date: June 1985
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 7.7"